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A colorful portfolio of 80 photographs, augmented with excerpts from ethnographic/naturalist photographer Lindsay's journals, tells of an archaic tribe the Mentawaians or original people who live in the rain forest of Siberut, an isolated, ecologically unique jungle island in Indonesia. - This beautiful book includes 80 color photographs and journal entries by Lindsay, an ethnographic photographer who has spent considerable time among the traditional people who inhabit the rain forest on the island of Siberut in Indonesia. Lindsay's friendship with a local shaman provided an opportunity for an intimate study of the customs and rituals of a people whose way of life is threatened by logging and modernization. Shamanic initiation and the duties and practices of traditional shamans on Siberut are carefully detailed. The photographs present a vivid, compelling ethnographic portrait. An essay by Reimar Schefold (cultural anthropology, Leiden Univ.) provides historical and cultural information about shamanism on Siberut. A fascinating look at an endangered culture. Highly recommended.-- Elizabeth Salt, Otterbein Coll. Lib., Westerville, Ohio.
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Reimar Schefold received his Ph.D. in Basel, Switzerland and is currently Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is also Chairman of the Dutch Research Association for Southeast Asia, and a member of the Board of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. He did research in Sumatra, Sulawesi, and on the Mentawai Islands where he lived for two years. His writing on Indonesia is widely published, including Lia: das grosse Ritual auf den Mentawai-Inseln, Indonesien (Lia: The Great Ritual on the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia) Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1988; and the film The Sakuddei, Granada TV and Odyssey-Series: Public Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
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"Nature is both religion and survival for those who dwell in the rain forest. But change, in the form of development, is eating away at the natural diversity that is the basis of Mentawaian island society. This book makes clear that we will all be impoverished by the loss of this ecosystem and the richly distinct human society that depends on it for existence and meaning."--Adrian Forsyth, Conservation International
"For the Mentawaian, priest and physician are one, for the condition of the spirit determines the physical state of the body. Sickness is disruption, imbalance, and the manifestation of malevolent forces in the flesh. Health is a state of balance, of harmony, and for the Mentawaian it is something holy. Although ailments may be treated symptomatically, often with medicinal plants, many of which are indeed pharmacologically active, it is intervention on the spiritual plane that ultimaetly determines a patient's fate, and for this the healers must fly away on the wings of trance to distant realms where they may work their deeds of magical resuce. This book is an exquisite portrait of a people who move in and out of their spirit realm with an ease and impunity that has consistently astonished ethnographic observers."--Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow
"One of the best environmental warnings of 1983. Every ten days an area the size of Noxubee County loses it's timber and all the bird, animal and plant life being supported by it. Mentawai Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest by Charles Lindsay, is a rare and exotic glance at this ominous fact."--Broox Sledge, The Book World
"Ethnographer Lindsay's fascination with the Mentawaian tribe and their determination to hold to traditions despite the intrusion of outside social and political forces makes for a captivating account."--The Bookwatch
"For the Mentawaian, priest and physician are one, for the condition of the spirit determines the physical state of the body. Sickness is disruption, imbalance, and the manifestation of malevolent forces in the flesh. Health is a state of balance, of harmony, and for the Mentawaian it is something holy. Although ailments may be treated symptomatically, often with medicinal plants, many of which are indeed pharmacologically active, it is intervention on the spiritual plane that ultimaetly determines a patient's fate, and for this the healers must fly away on the wings of trance to distant realms where they may work their deeds of magical resuce. This book is an exquisite portrait of a people who move in and out of their spirit realm with an ease and impunity that has consistently astonished ethnographic observers."--Wade Davis, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow
"One of the best environmental warnings of 1983. Every ten days an area the size of Noxubee County loses it's timber and all the bird, animal and plant life being supported by it. Mentawai Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest by Charles Lindsay, is a rare and exotic glance at this ominous fact."--Broox Sledge, The Book World
"Ethnographer Lindsay's fascination with the Mentawaian tribe and their determination to hold to traditions despite the intrusion of outside social and political forces makes for a captivating account."--The Bookwatch
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- PublisherPHAIDON PRESS
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0714828424
- ISBN 13 9780714828428
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages120
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